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title: In the northern hemisphere the Pole Star stands about as many degree… — Olympiad: maps, directions and clocks ★★★ · tree and pragmatics
description: In the northern hemisphere the Pole Star stands about as many degrees above the horizon as your latitude, and at the equator it sits right on the horizon. Who acts: Pole Star, Star. A sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: maps, directions and clocks ★★★» of the geography course of Mova's primary school 
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# Olympiad: maps, directions and clocks ★★★, sentence 16

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In the northern hemisphere the Pole Star stands about as many degrees above the horizon as your latitude, and at the equator it sits right on the horizon.

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**Who acts:** Pole Star, Star · **What happens:** stand, sit · **To what, where:** many degrees, northern hemisphere, equator

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: maps, directions and clocks ★★★» of the geography course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Pole Star, Star), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:geography:063-olympiad-maps-directions-and-clocks.lesson:16
# text = In the northern hemisphere the Pole Star stands about as many degrees above the horizon as your latitude, and at the equator it sits right on the horizon.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = geography
# lesson = 063-olympiad-maps-directions-and-clocks.lesson
# annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): no change
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	northern	northern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	hemisphere	hemisphere	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	Pole	Pole	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	Star	Star	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	stands	stand	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	about	about	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
10	as	as	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	degrees	degree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
13	above	above	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	horizon	horizon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
16	as	as	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	latitude	latitude	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
21	at	at	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	equator	equator	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
24	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	sits	sit	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
26	right	right	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
27	on	on	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	horizon	horizon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | present | the Pole Star | many degrees |  | the northern hemisphere |  | above the horizon as your latitude | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent degree=Theme in hemisphere=Destination |
| 2 | **sit** | present | Star |  |  | the equator |  | on the horizon | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at equator=Location |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:geography:063-olympiad-maps-directions-and-clocks.lesson:16`.

**The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): no change. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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